Poetry

Three Poems

Can’t. Can, too.     The curve of her half-smile is not unlike a scythe. The way he leans on the ladder-back chair is something very like a cat, demure, before the fur stands and the rat-attack.   Most people never take time to think that a crack or chink need not indicate a spot inclined to break. There’s more at stake than a fix or a mate. Look to the less and the lack, those who speak kind of quaint.   Me, I’m a little bit like a kite, caught up in a current, content the moment before I’m…

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